If nothing shatters it.
But then you wouldn't
Understand poems or songs.
You'd never know
Beauty comes from loss.
It's deep inside every person:
A tear tinier
Than a pearl or thorn.
It's one of the places
Where the beloved is born.
--Gregory Orr
"Maybe if we reinvent whatever our lives give us we find poems." --Naomi Shihab Nye
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the pen...
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